Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.2
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
478
Points per Word
0.001046
Description
Young John goes fishing and catches something so strange, so ugly and so wormy that he throws it straight back. In the river the wormy thing grows and grows, and when it crawls out of the river there is only one person who can sort the problem out.